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  • February 1994 (Revised February 1996)
  • Case

Union Carbide Corporation: Interest Rate Risk Management

By: Peter Tufano
Union Carbide's board of directors is asked to evaluate a proposal from the staff treasurer's that would articulate policies to manage its debt portfolio. The staff proposes that shareholder value will be maximized if the firm manages its exposure to interest rates by... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Interest Rates; Corporate Finance; Chemical Industry
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    Myra M. Hart

    Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

    Keywords: consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; real estate; retailing

      Michael Montelongo

      Michael Montelongo is a Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Managing Service Operations in the MBA elective curriculum that shows how to effectively design, manage, and improve... View Details

      • September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
      • Supplement

      Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A2)

      By: V.G. Narayanan, Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
      The A1 and A2 versions of the “Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)” split the original A case into two parts. The A1 case ends as activists Sardar Biglari and Phil Cooley prepare to meet with CEO Don Smith at Friendly's headquarters in September 2006. The... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Conflict and Resolution; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      • 12 May 2011
      • News

      Q&A: Tarun Khanna, Professor, Harvard Business School

        Dante Roscini

        Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details

          Hubert Joly

          Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy
          Author of The Heart of Business– Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

          Hubert Joly is a senior lecturer in the General Management unit and... View Details

            Rob Markey

            Rob Markey is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Unit at Harvard Business School. 

            In addition to teaching at HBS, Professor Markey is an advisory partner in Bain &... View Details

              Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes

              This paper investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance.  We find that the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors and senior executives at the acquiring and the target firms has a significantly negative... View Details

                Joseph B. Fuller

                Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Entrepreneurship. He founded and co-leads the school’s project, Managing the Future of Work, as well as the Harvard Project on the Workforce. He currently leads the FIELD Global Capstone... View Details

                • 18 Nov 2015
                • Research & Ideas

                Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

                ask? And more specifically, what are the sources of influence on the decisions that they make?” At large public companies, boards of directors... View Details
                Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting
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                Fabrizio Ferri's research focuses on a number of corporate governance issues, with particular emphasis on executive compensation and shareholder activism. His dissertation investigates the determinants and consequences of firms' decision to reprice... View Details

                • May 2021 (Revised May 2022)
                • Supplement

                Odebrecht's 'Transformation Journey' (B)

                By: Lynn S. Paine, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo
                The case describes the changes in Odebrecht’s board of directors while the company had to file for court-supervised reorganization and cope with an ongoing feud within its founding family, and the new challenges that the Group’s leadership has to face. The changes in... View Details
                Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Reputation; Mission and Purpose; Business and Government Relations; Engineering; Family Business; Emerging Markets; Construction Industry; Brazil; Latin America
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                • July 2017 (Revised July 2018)
                • Case

                Entrepreneurship for All

                By: Lynda M. Applegate and Julia Kelley
                Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) is a Lowell, Massachusetts–based nonprofit that hosts business accelerators for entrepreneurs in underserved communities. By mid-2017, EforAll has five office locations in Massachusetts, and its leadership and the Board of Directors... View Details
                Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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                Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement

                an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. Halle started her career working in finance and business development roles at Intel and Apple. She is currently an advisor to the Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical... View Details

                  Das Narayandas

                  Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), a Post-Graduate... View Details

                  Keywords: advertising; beauty products; biotechnology; computer; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; federal government; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; internet; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; professional services; retailing; telecommunications; transportation

                    Derek C. M. van Bever

                    Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

                      Satish K. Tadikonda

                      Satish Tadikonda is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. In the MBA program, Satish teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, a required first-year MBA course, and Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences, an elective course for... View Details

                        Willy C. Shih

                        Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration.  He is part of the Technology and Operations Management Unit, and he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education Programs.  His expertise is in manufacturing, product... View Details

                        Keywords: aerospace; automotive; biotechnology; communications; computer; digital imaging; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; manufacturing; retailing; semiconductor

                          Guhan Subramanian

                          Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School.  He is the first person in the history of Harvard University to hold... View Details